We leave “Sweaty Stephen” as we call it and take the royal road up through the mountains to Cetinje.
This the old capital city, where photos of the dead are pinned to trees and washing hangs as faded victory pennants in front of wooden shutters. The old women fan their creased faces and the tomatoes in [...]
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Posted in Montenegro on July 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Wonderful camping grounds – why would you ever watnt to stay in a hotel when you can sleep next to the beach (taken that even I eventually get used to sleeping on a bedroll). We swim every morning at least.
Brian was very pleased to buy some raki in a market. We [...]
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Posted in Montenegro on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Swimming in Montenegro is cold in fact way way way colder than NZ . So cold even one of the bravest (Patrick) got in to his knees and ran out again!!! But of course I stayed in. Although after a while he got bored and came in. Once you got used to the coldness it [...]
Albania – Montenegro
Posted in Montenegro on July 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Those of you following this blog will have given up on now thinking us perhaps dead. No – the more prosaic reason is we have not had easy internet access since leaving Albania. Ironic!
A German woman at the backpackers we stayed at told us that all her friends had warned her off Albania [...]
Montenegro (1)
Posted in Montenegro on July 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We are staying in a camping ground with a beach. But mum first could onlly find the nudist beach and it was very embarrassing. Luckily our neighbour (from Macdonia) told us about the other beach where people kept their togs on.
At lunchtime, a turtle came wandering over to our tent. I fed [...]
